I don't know whether this statement is more stupid or ignorant. Coming from you though it's not surprising.
Officials: Explosive Device Found in NY Mailbox at Home of George Soros
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I don't defend extremism on any side. But you are pointing to isolated cases on the right. There are far more violent attacks from left wing mobs (Antifa. Black Bloc. Black Lives Matter) then there are from so called right wing extremists. Almost on a daily basis. The lying media tries to ignore or hide it.
Sanders doesn't support any use of violence or in any way the tactics of Antifa. Violent extremists of either side need to be taken down. Denounced.
Stop allowing a few idiots to shape your opinions.
Did I say that Sanders supports the use of violence or other similar tactics?? The violence of the Antifa is overblown by the right who try to make excuses for the violence on the extreme right wing. You are allowing idiots to shape your opinions with some of your assumptions!!
Wasn't it a Bernie supporter who went after the Republicans at a ball game? I'm not blaming Crazy Bernie,of course.
Suspicious packages, being treated as bombs by police, found at the homes of the Clintons, Obamas and the Time Warner Building in NYC, headquarters of CNN. It has been evacuated.
The right are just starting to ramp it up. Trump must be salivating. He'd love a civil war.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...re-police-nypd-explosive-device-a8599601.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...eat-package-target-george-soros-a8599591.html
The right are just starting to ramp it up. Trump must be salivating. He'd love a civil war.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...re-police-nypd-explosive-device-a8599601.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...eat-package-target-george-soros-a8599591.html
Harassing somebody verbally vs. sending bombs into office buildings. That is the difference between left and right. Chill indeed, to the right wingers.
Who only targets the left.
Poor labelling on your part. How about right wing serial terrorist.
Let's not forget the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords, killings of six others and wounding of 18 others when attending her rally by a Tea Party Supporter Jared Lee Loughner. Wonder if we could blame the Antifa or the Alt Right for it??
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...son-worked-bernie-sanders-campaign/102847514/
Alleged gunman James Hodgkinson volunteered on Bernie Sanders' campaign
Nicole Gaudiano, USA TODAY Published 12:46 p.m. ET June 14, 2017 | Updated 2:29 p.m. ET June 14, 2017
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Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, speaking on the Senate floor Wednesday, said the Alexandria shooter was someone who "apparently volunteered on my presidential campaign." (June 14) AP
The suspect in Wednesday morning's shooting at Republicans' congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Va., "apparently volunteered in Iowa" for Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, according to his staff.
The shooting injured Louisiana congressman Steve Scalise and at least three other people. The shooter was identified by a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity as James Hodgkinson of Belleville, Ill.
Authorities identified James T. Hodgkinson as the man who shot Rep. Steve Scalise and several others during a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. USA TODAY
Sanders was informed this morning and issued a statement:
"I have just been informed that the alleged shooter at the Republican baseball practice is someone who apparently volunteered on my presidential campaign. I am sickened by this despicable act. Let me be as clear as I can be. Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms. Real change can only come about through nonviolent action, and anything else runs against our most deeply held American values.
"My hopes and prayers are that Representative Scalise, congressional staff and the Capitol Police Officers who were wounded make a quick and full recovery. I also want to thank the Capitol Police for their heroic actions to prevent further harm."
They are now considered to be Domestic Terror. There is a Sulphur compound found in all those packages. This is an attempted assassination of two former Presidents. Hopefully, they will get to the bottom of it. Trump has constantly attacked all those targeted with names like CNN being the Enemy of the people, Crooked Clinton and other derogatory terminology for Obama including the Birther Conspiracy. He has not even attempted to reach out to them. Not surprising that the perpetrators of these acts of terror take everything that he says as Gospel Truth.
2017 Congressional baseball shooting
Eugene Simpson Stadium Park is located in AlexandriaEugene Simpson Stadium ParkEugene Simpson Stadium Park
Location Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.
Coordinates 38°49′18″N 77°3′12″WCoordinates: 38°49′18″N 77°3′12″W
Date June 14, 2017
7:09 a.m. EDT
Target Republican Congressmen
Attack type
Mass shooting
Weapons SKS rifle and 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun[1][2][3]
Deaths 1 (perpetrator)[4]
Non-fatal injuries
6 (4 by gunfire); 1 in critical condition[5][6]
Perpetrator James Hodgkinson
On June 14, 2017, in Alexandria, Virginia, Republican member of Congress and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana was shot while practicing for the annual Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, scheduled for the following day. Also shot were Crystal Griner, a U.S. Capitol Police officer assigned to protect Scalise; Zack Barth, a congressional aide; and Matt Mika, a Tyson Foods lobbyist.
A ten-minute shootout ensued between the shooter—James Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, a left-wing activist[7][8]—and officers from the Capitol and Alexandria Police. Officers shot Hodgkinson, who died from his wounds later that day at the George Washington University Hospital.[6][9]
Scalise and Mika were taken to nearby hospitals, where they underwent surgery.[10] Scalise is the first sitting member of Congress to have been shot since Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot in 2011.[11]
The Virginia Attorney General concluded it was “fueled by rage against Republican legislators,” and “an act of terrorism.”[12]
Contents
1 Background
2 Shooting
3 Injuries
4 Perpetrator
5 Reactions
6 Effect on the 2017 Congressional Baseball Game
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Background[edit]
The shooting took place on June 14, 2017, at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. There were 24 Republican congressmen who had gathered at the park to practice for the next day's Congressional Baseball Game for Charity, an annual, bipartisan event first held in 1909. Among those at the practice, aside from Scalise, were Senators Rand Paul and Jeff Flake, and Representatives Roger Williams (the team's coach), Chuck Fleischmann, Trent Kelly, Mo Brooks, Brad Wenstrup, Rodney Davis, Jeff Duncan, Jack Bergman, and Joe Barton (the team's manager).[6][13][14][15]
Prior to the game, the Republicans had held practices at the same time and place each morning.[16] The team began its practice around 6:30 a.m. EDT that day.[16][17][18]
According to Representatives Ron DeSantis and Jimmy Duncan, they were approached before the shooting at the practice by a man who asked whether Republicans or Democrats were practicing on the field. Duncan reportedly replied that it was the Republican team. DeSantis later told reporters that both he and Duncan believe that the man was the perpetrator of the shooting, James Hodgkinson.[19]
Three Capitol Police officers were present at the practice to protect Scalise,[20] who, due to his House leadership position, has a full-time security detail assigned to protect him.[21] They were posted behind the first-base dugout on that day.[20][22]
Shooting[edit]
File:Eyewitness Account- Senator Jeff Flake on Congressional Shooting.webm
Senator Jeff Flake recounts the incident to a Voice of America reporter.
The practice had been underway for about half an hour when James Hodgkinson began firing. According to the Capitol Police, he was armed with an SKS rifle and a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun, both of which he had apparently purchased legally.[1] It was unclear if Hodgkinson used the handgun during the shooting incident.[23]
When Hodgkinson opened fire, two of the officers, David Bailey and Crystal Griner, rushed onto the field to protect the congressmen and the other civilians. Hodgkinson hid behind the third base dugout as the third Capitol Police officer, Henry Cabrera, took aim at him from behind the first base dugout.[20][22]
At 7:09 am, the Alexandria Police received a 9-1-1 report of shots fired. Two police officers arrived within three minutes and also engaged Hodgkinson in a gunfight. Witnesses estimated between 50 and 100 shots were fired during the shootout, which lasted about 10 minutes before Hodgkinson was shot by two Alexandria Police and two Capitol Police officers.[24][25][21]
Scalise, who was at second base when the shooting started, was shot in the hip and tried to drag himself off the field. While the shooting was still going on, Rep. Mo Brooks used his belt as a tourniquet to help stop bleeding for a staffer who had been shot in the calf. After the shooting ended, Brooks and Rep. Brad Wenstrup—a podiatrist who also served with the Army's 344th Combat Support Hospital—were able to assist Scalise.[26]
Several witnesses said their lives were saved by the presence of the Capitol Police, who were there because of Scalise's position as the House Majority Whip. The Capitol Police immediately engaged Hodgkinson and kept him pinned down, preventing him from continuing to fire on the unarmed baseball players. Rep. Davis and Sen. Rand Paul separately said that if not for the presence of the officers, the incident "would have been a massacre."[27][4][28]
A tactical squad from the Capitol Police Containment and Emergency Response Team was erroneously directed to the residence of Nancy Pelosi in Georgetown, delaying their response time.[29]
Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-year-old resident of Tucson identified by police as the gunman in Saturday's rampage, left a series of indications revealing the mentally unstable state of his mind and the extreme rightwing causes he supported in the run up to the tragedy.
The tone of Loughner's rantings is almost exclusively conservative and anti-government, with echoes of the populist campaigning of the Tea Party movement. "Don't trust the government listener!" he said in one video, accusing Washington of mind control and brainwashing.
The US constitution, the bible of the Tea Parties, features heavily, as does the suggestion that the federal government is acting against the text. "You don't have to accept the federalist laws. Read the United States of America constitution to apprehend all of the current treasonous laws."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/09/jared-lee-loughner-rightwing-rants
